Asistentul personal Siri disponibil in iDevice-urile noastre interpreteaza comenzile rostite de catre utilizatori cu ajutorul serverelor Apple care proceseaza tot ceea ce inregistreaza microfonul iDevice-urilor. Toate cuvintele rostite de catre noi ajung in serverele companiei din Cupertino, iar Apple inmagazineaza acele date timp de 2 ani de zile pentru a le analiza si a imbuntati sistemul. Apple acorda un numar aleatoriu fiecarui iDevice care foloseste Siri si trimite date catre servere, acele date fiind salvate in functie de numarul in baza caruia au venit, insa compania sustine ca ea nu stie exact de la ce utilizatori vine fiecare set de date.
According to Apple’s Tracy Muller, the company takes steps to ensure that the data is anonymized and only collects the Siri voice clips in order to improve Siri itself. “Our customers’ privacy is very important to us,” she says. Apple generates a random numbers to represent the user and it associates the voice files with that number. This number — not your Apple user ID or email address — represents you as far as Siri’s back-end voice analysis system is concerned. Once the voice recording is six months old, Apple “disassociates” your user number from the clip, deleting the number from the voice file. But it keeps these disassociated files for up to 18 more months for testing and product improvement purposes.
La 6 luni dupa inregistrarea datelor, compania disociaza numerele de ele si le inmagazineaza pentru inca 18 luni, timp in care le analizeaza intr-o incercare de a imbunatati functionalitatea asistentului, insa daca dezactivati Siri, toate acele date sunt sterse, impreuna cu identificatorii lor. Practic Apple retine pana la 2 ani de zile toate datele si le foloseste in scopuri aparent nobile, insa compania a tinut secrete aceste practici pana recent, asta in ciuda faptului ca avocati din SUA au cerut in repetate randuri explicarea procesului in baza caruia sunt preluate datele.
Chiar daca Apple sustine ca toate informatiile sunt primite anonim si analizate in aceleasi conditii, este bine sa nu rostiti informatii confidentiale catre asistent, avand in vedere ca tot ceea ce spuneti este intr-un final analizat de cineva sau ceva.
This post was last modified on apr. 19, 2013, 3:26 PM 15:26